Home Sales Pop 59%

Homes sales in the Nashville area jumped nearly 60% last month with close to 2,000 closings reported in November.

On the heels of yesterday’s announcement that Nashville will launch an initiative for charter schools, the city’s school board approved a new charter school called New Vision Academy.

A new charter school incubator is set to open in Nashville. The program will first focus on training principals who want to open schools in Davidson County. After that, it then plans to expand to working with charter school applicants across the state.

Rainy weather has stalled a flock of 20 whooping cranes in Tennessee.

Congressman Jim Cooper says he’s encouraged by the Obama Administration’s efforts in Afghanistan. He heard details from the top military commander in that country Tuesday.

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer researchers have found that a lower risk of breast cancer recurrence comes with eating more soy. That study is out in the latest Journal of American Medicine.

Tennessee is seeing the same downturn in the number H1N1 cases as the rest of the nation.

The tough economy has left at least ten thousand Tennessee school children drifting with their families from motel rooms, to friends’ couches, to a relative’s home for shelter. School officials who track that movement call them families “living in transition.” WPLN’s Anne Marshall has the story of one family struggling to keep life as normal as possible.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told soldiers at Fort Campbell today to focus on war’s human side to win in Afghanistan.

Tennessee Republican Bob Corker has been sitting down with Democrats to discuss proposed regulations of the financial industry.